song thrush
I guess the song thrush is my favourite among the European import avian fauna (although the blackbirds are slowly catching up). They have a very beautiful song, and, like the blackbirds, often become quite tolerant of their human neighbours. And while they aren’t very colourful, they make up for it with their very attractively chevroned speckled breast.
There just don’t seem to be that many around though. So I was pleased to find one using the deck handrail this afternoon as a vantage point for hunting out worms:
Somewhere in the wild ground to the south of our house, she has a nest. And in time, I hope, more thrushes.
nikolien
12 January 2009, 13:53 #
I saw one at the Playcentre in December – the patterns are so pretty, and there were some glints of gold it seemed to me….and like you, I suddenly thought…” oh, I quite like thrushes, and there aren’t so many of them around…!!
Alan
12 January 2009, 14:20 #
They are pretty, aren’t they. This same one was out on the path beside the kitchen window on Saturday morning, trying to smash a snail’s shell. The snail was madly evacuating mucus, and every couple of seconds the thrush needed to stop, put the snail down, and shake its head to get rid of it.
It looked pretty comical, actually.